Wednesday, 9 February 2011

The SS Great Britain sits in a dock in Bristol. The Titantic's location is best known to James Cameron. Yet now it's Great Britain's deckchairs that are being rearraranged in the endless quest to find the money from you and I to patch up the mess the banks created.

Brighton may be brash in its commercialism compared to Eastbourne (just compare the piers) but when it comes to resting one's bum it's curious how Eastbourne appears to have sold out.

And what could be uglier than having logos all over deckchairs? Easy, an advert saying "Your logo here"?

These images may be found in the Brighton and Hove and Brands galleries at my image library. Do you see how Eastbourne misses out on a link?

Thursday, 3 February 2011

I found this image when making sure that some of my older images were properly catalogued. It's the summit of Mount Urregarai in the Basque region of Spain. You'll see a stone building - some sort of sanctuary at the summit, and in the foreground a model house representing the same building on its own mini-mountain, carved out of stone and painted.

I could have put up an alternative photo of me leaning against the model house and giving the thumbs up. But thought better of it.

About Me

I'm a Brighton based professional photographer, at a crossroads on whether I really am that any more.. To earn a living in commercial photography I took unposed photos of real people doing stuff in real situations, that same skill helping me to be a dab hand at parties.

But now photography is less to do with making a living and more about art. Using the skills I acquired, I hit the streets and try and get as close as I can to my human subject without getting attacked. The landscape gets my attention too. And I shoot film - medium format and 35mm in an assortment of Pentax cameras, developing monochrome myself which keeps me rooted...

I also simply get out to take photos for stock. You'll find my images at Alamy, iStock and Getty Images. And at my own website - all linked from this page.

I have a dislike for corporate headshots, studio work, 'glamour', brown nosing and 4x4s. I'm also not particularly interested in equipment or techniques. Especially HDR, unless you can't tell it's there in your images in which case there's no need to mention it. Please.